Combined penholder and extractor.



No. 654,098. Patented July l7, I900.

T. M. SMITH.

COMBINED PEN HOLDER AND EXTRAGTOR.

(Applicaltion filed Jul. 20, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Unrrnn STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS MARSHALL SMITH, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COMBINED PENHOLDER AND EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,098, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed January 20, 1900. Serial No. 2,195. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MARSHALL SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Penholder and Extractor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pens or penholders, and is designed for the easy and convenient removal of the pen from the holder.

It consists mainly of a penholder-handle having a pen-removing point or extension, and of other details partly relating to the pen, all as hereinafter explained.

My said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the penholder and pen in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 shows the handle removed from the pen-holding part and the point thereof in position to remove the pen. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.

In the drawings, A represents the pen, and B the part of the holder in which the pen is inserted. This is in the usual form, having an outer continuous shell 2 and inner compressible part 3, between which and the shell the shank of the pen is inserted. The penholder-handle O is of the usual form at its junction with the penholder part B, preferably of the same diameter therewith, and has a reduced shank fitted snugly to enter the lower end'of the holder part. On the inner end of this handle is a pen-removing extension. It may be of varying forms, provided it be adapted to engage with or grasp the pen for the purpose of removing it from the holder. As shown, the pen-engaging extension consists of-a point 4.. This may, as shown, consist of a bit of wire bent in crank form, one end 7 being inserted in the end of the handle and the other extending approximately in line with the surface of the reduced end of the handle 0. This when the handle is with .applied.

drawn from the holder becomes a tool for the removal of the pen. Various kinds of pens have holes in which this point may be inserted, as at a, for example, in the figures; but I prefer to provide in the pen a depression, as at 5, with a hole in the wall of the depression and remove the pen as illustrated in Fig. 2. Thus the point 4=is readily guided into the hole, and the pressure exerted is nearly parallel to the line of the pen, as a shoulder is thus formed to receive the power This is a very simple form of device for engaging the pen; but I do not limit myself to this, as other devices on the end of the removable handle may easily be substi tuted therefor, engagement with the pen for purpose of removal of the pen being the essential point of the invention.

I claim- 1. A penholder comprising a pen-holding part, and a handle removable therefrom, said handle having on the end which is inserted in the pen-holding part, a rigid pen-removing extension, adapted, when the handle is detached, to engage with, and draw the pen from its holding part.

2. A penholder comprising a pen-holding part and a handle removable therefrom, said handle having upon the end which is inserted in the holding part, a point adapted, when the handle is removed, to engage with a hole in the pen and draw the same from the holder.

3. A pen -'removing device comprising a handle having attached to one end a bayonetshaped removing projection, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS- MARSHALL SMITH.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. Ooornn, O. S. MIDDLETON. 

